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Chapter 243 Acting vigorously and resolutely in Shuntian Mansion

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    After setting the rules, Wang Wuyang arranged beds for the two of them, and then performed a traditional program of his own - teaching his disciples to do housework.

    Who would have thought that the two brothers would do whatever they were told without saying a word, without complaining at all. Their diligent and loyal appearance made Sanyang no longer feel the pleasure of bullying.

    ¡°And they were too tall and powerful. The three weak Jiangnan scholars did not dare to play too much, lest they get beaten.

    "Look at people, they work hard without complaining." Hua Shuyang put his hand in his sleeve and glanced at Wang Dingjue who was reading.  "It's not like you were pushing back and forth, and doing some work seemed like it was going to cost you your life."

    Wang Dingjue rolled his eyes and ignored him.

    "You are talking about yourself." Wang Wuyang threw an apple to Hua Shuyang.

    "Senior brother, don't expose your shortcomings in person." Hua Shuyang took the apple, took a bite, and said: "Have I not been used to being served by others since I was a child? I have to have time to change."

    "Brother, please lift your feet." At this time, Yu Shenxing mopped the floor.

    The two kings sat cross-legged on the table, and Wang Dingjue asked: "Zhengyang, there is no one to serve you at home?"

    "I have more than four hundred servants." Yu Shenxing answered casually.

    "Look, what do you think?" The two kings laughed at Hua Shuyang and said, "A lazy man is a lazy man, don't look for excuses."

    "You call me lazy? Who has been washing your nose for half a year?" Hua Shuyang looked at Wang Wuyang with a sneer and said, "I even know what color you like."

    "Brothers, 'You must not bully your siblings, and be careful not to criticize your shortcomings and destroy your strengths.'" Thinking that they were about to quarrel, the Yu brothers warned the three of them in unison.

    "Uh" Sanyang stopped talking and read a book each.

    ¡°With two more junior brothers who are so strict, I¡¯m afraid there will be a lot less fun in the future.

    ??~~

    In the evening, Zhao Shouzheng came back, and Yu Shensi and Yu Shenxing came to kowtow to their master and offer them filial piety - donkey hide gelatin ointment that nourishes blood and nourishes Qi.

    Zhao Shouzheng was overjoyed to see that his son had accepted two more apprentices, and he said to himself that my son would not have to worry about having no one to support him until his death.

    He called the two of them up with a smile, took out two tickets from the money box, one for each person and said:

    "Fourth, fifth, Master, give me a little greeting gift."

    "Thank you, Master!"

    The long-legged brother hurriedly took the ticket with both hands, glanced at the amount on it, and his eyes almost dropped.

    It is actually one thousand taels, and one thousand taels per person.

    The two brothers¡¯ families are famous big landowners in Shandong, and they have thousands of donkeys alone. The donkey-hide gelatin farms have opened in the capital, so they always have a family fortune of tens of thousands taels.

    "But the Yu family's upbringing was strict and the brothers were young. The old man was worried that they would do mischief outside when they had money. Even if they went to Beijing to take the exam, they would only be given twenty taels of silver a month, not a penny more.

    Now seeing their master casually taking out so much money, the two of them were so frightened that they quickly waved their hands, saying that it was too much and they did not dare to accept it.

    "Can I still let you call me Master for nothing? You senior brothers also have a thousand taels per person. Master, I am impartial." Ji Yu Song Erye waved his hand and said not to be polite: "Take it and spend it as you like. If you don't have enough, come back again."  Ask me for it.¡±

    The elders gave it to me, but I dare not refuse.  The two had no choice but to kowtow again and then carefully accept it.  I said to myself that in the world I have only heard of people who open academies and recruit students to make a fortune, but I have never heard that you can make a fortune by becoming a disciple.

    At this time, it was dinner time, and the servants served the food.

    After the three yangs turned into the five yangs, eating at a kang table would be too crowded.

    Zhao Hao asked someone to set up another table and sent the four of them to the West Room for dinner.  Only Zhao Shizhen and Wang Wuyang were left on the Kang table, so that they could serve tea and water to him and his son.

    Zhao Shouzheng drank a cup of Erqu and began to sigh.

    After waiting for a long time, Zhao Hao didn't pick up the fight, so he said depressedly: "You haven't learned anything about the ability to pick up fights with your father."

    "Then what should we do?" Zhao Hao asked with a smile.

    "When you hear me sigh, you should tell me why my father is sighing. Is there something on his mind?" Zhao Shouzheng lectured.

    "Okay, let's talk." Zhao Hao nodded and asked Wang Wuyang to serve him another bowl of silver noodles.

    "Hey, you kid is already a master, and you don't know how to lead by example." Zhao Shouzheng smiled bitterly, and Fang sighed again:

    "Today on the way to Wenhui, I heard crying all over the street."

    "Oh?" Zhao Hao was stunned for a moment and asked, "Who is crying?"

    "It's the refugees who fled to Beijing who are crying for themselves." Zhao Shouzheng said with sympathy: "When I inquired about it, I found out that it was Shuntian Mansion that had posted a notice giving them all five days to leave Beijing. Five days later, Shuntian Mansion  Tianfu and the Five Cities SoldiersMa Si will search the whole city, and anyone who can't find a way out will be raped with fifty shackles for three days and sent back to their place of origin.  "

    "Isn't this nonsense?" When Zhao Hao heard this, the relaxed look on his face disappeared.

    "They are all villagers who fled to Beijing when the Tatars invaded. Who would go to the county town to open a good road before going out?"

    "Yes." Wang Wuyang also said angrily: "In what age are we now, who leads the way when we go out? If we hadn't gone to Beijing to take the exam, we wouldn't have thought of this."

    Zhao Shizhen said with a pale face: "I have no way to lead, will the government arrest me?"

    In the early days of the Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang formulated too many nonsense regulations that would slap him on the head, and this road guide was one of them.  It is required that all soldiers and civilians who leave home for hundreds of miles must first go to the government to issue a road guide, stating the whereabouts, purpose, and return date.  If you fail to lead the way, fail to return after the deadline, or go elsewhere, as long as you are discovered by the government, you will be arrested and punished.

    Almost as soon as he died, this ridiculous rule became a piece of paper.  At first, there would be a symbolic check, but there were so many people running around that the government couldn't check them at all.  So starting from Chenghua, the government completely let go.  It's just that due to the ancestral system, the road guide system has not been abolished.

    ¡° Moreover, this method has another advantage.  That is, when officials and subordinates want to punish outsiders, they will do it

    ??~~

    Zhao Hao¡¯s family naturally didn¡¯t know that this turmoil that affected countless victims had something to do with them.

    ¡°If Zhao Shouzheng hadn¡¯t been invited to tea by Shuntian Prefecture, if Zhao Hao hadn¡¯t made a fuss and gathered so many traitors, Emperor Longqing would not have known about Cao Fuyin and Ni Tuiguan.

    Naturally, Xu Fan would not order Shuntian Prefecture to immediately draw a clear line with maritime merchants, and use such an exaggerated method to prove his innocence and eliminate the emperor's anger.

    But big shots always have complicated motives when doing things.  They might also want to take the opportunity to solve the refugee problem that has plagued the imperial court for several months

    ¡° Mr. Xu Ge doesn¡¯t want to see people in the capital freezing to death and starving to death, so wouldn¡¯t driving all the refugees out of the city achieve the same effect?

    It¡¯s just the thoughts of those in power, who knows below?  It can only be made without reason.

    "As a result, everyone was talking about this matter at today's cultural conference. How can the victims be driven out of the capital in this icy and snowy environment? How can they live?" Zhao Shouzheng said worriedly:

    ¡°I¡¯m afraid that before we get home, we will all freeze to death and starve to death on the road.¡±

    "What was the result of the discussion?" Zhao Hao asked softly.

    "We have discussed donating money together to open a porridge factory outside Baiyun Temple." Zhao Shouzheng said casually: "Everyone pledged a donation. We can collect 20,000 taels of silver, which should help 20,000 to 30,000 victims until the beginning of spring."

    Zhao Hao nodded and remained silent.

    "They pushed me to take the lead." Zhao Shouzheng said, glanced at his son, and said softly: "But for such a big matter, how dare I make my own decision? I have to come back to discuss it with you first."

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